Critique is never-ending. As Tony Bennett’s article shows, there is always room for critique, because there will always be additional angles from which a certain issue can be addressed. By way of example, Bennett argues that Franco Moretti’s model has “limits” (Bennett, 280), that there are “difficulties” related to its construction (285), that Moretti “throws Read More
For this bootcamp, I wanted to see what Moretti’s network theory could bring to my own research, and more specifically to the interpretation of visual texts related to law and justice. I chose to look at a group of three 14th century frescoes painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti: the Allegory of Good and Bad Government, located Read More
Maps themselves are also texts (Harley: 7-8). As raw material, I decided to take a map showing the projects and infrastructure planned to implement the (in)famous Plan Nord of the Charest government. The project, now called Le nord pour tous, hasn’t changed much under the new government, although its implementation has been somewhat slowed down Read More
The above picture is a detail of a collage currently on exhibition at the Darling Foundry and is part of Le Mois de la photo à Montréal. The artist transformed and assembled close to one thousand images taken from a photo-sharing website. Sunset Portraits is a large, yet ordered and neat collage. The pictures are Read More